The child will soon be adopted by a shepherd, and then he will found a city which will spiral into an empire.
Seriously though, this is awful. I hope that both mother and child get help, and that somebody gives that dog a steak.

Thinking, also, about the picture; I think it says a lot that so many people imagine that it HAD to be released in order to change people’s opinions about the refugees. Mad Max: Fury Road was such an important film because it did not SHOW the wives being raped. They said they were raped. Mad Max believed them and…

Some of these are pretty but HOW WOULD YOU WIPE YOUR ASS?

I’m actually pretty upset about Margaret Atwood’s latest. She had been releasing it in chunks, as a serial ebook, for £2 each and then, halfway through, she decided to just release it all in one go. This means that those of us who believed her when she advertised it as a serial novel are getting messed over. I’m not…

While you should, without a doubt, publish stories like this, you absolutely should not have posted the video of the murders. I won’t watch it (I’ve got PTSD, and ethics) and the only reason that anyone would desire to see it springs from sick, entitled curiosity. It is enough, for us, to know that they are dead,…

When my siblings and I were kids and Dad would take us on long road trips with the dogs, we’d get bored and play The Cannibal Game. This involved deciding who we would eat first (out of people and dogs) if we were ever stranded somewhere without food. Then we’d pick the second victim, then the third, and so on down…

Hi Naomi,
I don’t have any questions, but it’s important to let writers know that their work is appreciated so that’s what I’m doing. I thought the story was interesting, the writing solid (and in places, beautiful) and the characters were psychologically complex. You really nailed the personality of the prince and the…

Before I got married, I had good luck in London. They take bisexuals seriously, too. No one accused me of doing it for attention, which was nice.

I’m a Christian and I don’t think that I can take much more of this. These people care more about outside perceptions, about their hierarchal standing, about money, power, and their personal status than they do about the lives of actual flesh and blood children. I spent three years in a ‘Presbyterian’ orphanage and a…

No use arguing with a troll, but I’m a glutton for punishment, so I’ll say that if you are willing to throw away two more lives for the sake of vengeance instead of getting them psychological help (which is no walk in the park) then you are the monster.

I thought that it was beautifully written and perfectly paced. I liked the misanthropy of the eventual love-interest. It was interesting to me that Agnieszka had no idea that the wizard was teaching her - because it never occurred to him to tell her. Even the supporting characters were well-drawn. And having met real…

Eventually, the bones stopped their screaming.

When grandma unfroze, the carnage began.

‘Women Betrayed’. No kidding. I see what they are trying to do, but really they couldn’t have picked a better label if they tried. Vote for the GOP and women will indeed be betrayed.

I actually think that this is a fantastic idea. Out of death, comes new life. Maybe I’ve been reading too much Jung (or watching too many episodes of Ask a Mortician) but I love this idea. There’s also the fact that here in the UK the churches are full of dead people so you are going to be walking over corpses on your…

They are much less likely to attack than wolves, but like wolves (and pigs!) they have all the requirements for domestication: high intelligence, strict hierarchy, and an omnivorous diet (although they eat far more meat than roughage). Dogs and pigs domesticated themselves by following around early humans. They ate…

You know what? I’ve been posting for years. I’m never intentionally offensive and I try to be polite. Isn’t it about time that I got out of the greys?

I sleep with a stuffed hyena named Mercutio. My husband bought her for me because ‘it was the most feminist stuffed animal’ he could think of. They are also highly, ridiculously intelligent and domesticable. I want to sleep with a real one. I’ve watched at least 50 documentaries on the subject (the worst was the…

This was a very interesting article. I long to try some boiled sheepshead. But then, when I lived in the Phillippines my favorite foods were balut and rat on a stick. I still eat balut whenever I can get it. Mmmmm, eggs with legs.
But I could not ever eat Whale. They’re basically people. I don’t judge you for being…

Jealousy. A trip to the dentist costs them over $200. And that’s just for an inspection and cleaning.